How much would you pay for curtains?

rosiep05

What's your personal budget for curtain panels? 

dairygirl19

If I really loved, adored and made of a great sturdy material I'd pay $100.00 a panel about.

The ones I have now are JCP and were like $12.99 a panel. They're five years old and I'm getting bored with them, but they were just fine and did the job. I don't feel bad about trading them out, but I can't find ones I like more either at the moment.

lanyac

Around $40. I just paid $35 and it made me a bit uncomfortable. And then my dog ate one =[

sierramist_03

I am cheap personally I won't pay more than $40 a panel

lcherian

I had some custom made for $400 per panel.

lshoes32

I am trying to make myself pull the trigger on $80 panels. I need 4, and DH would flip his lid if he knew what I am pondering spending. And that I am about to make him hang two curtain rods that need to be the same height as each other...on the same wall so it will really show if he effs up.

2bjam

The panels that I ended up buying for our living room from Pier 1 were $40 a piece. Although, I just couldn't stomach paying $160 for 2 windows... so knowing that I was going to keep the panels open, (with lined blinds on the windows), I bought 2 panels, cut them in 2, hemmed them and even added grommets because I liked the look better... and Voila! I got the curtains I wanted for $80 for 2 windows instead of $160!

KurtsWife09

When we buy a house I'm buying the silk curtains from Restoration Hardware, they are well over $100 a panel, but that's okay.

marriedonmaui

We just had custom curtains made for the garage and paid $250 for the whole garage, all 5 windows and two doors.

TheBridesMom

A lot, if I thought that I would have them and love them for a long time.  Of course 'a long time' is a relative term.  I spend a lot of time at home, and I do appreciate quality fabric and would be willing to spend the money on something beautiful to enjoy....I am worth it.   Or I might buy some cheap curtains that are the 'perfect' color/pattern etc., if they caught my eye.

I remember when my mother spend several hundreds of dollars on custom made draperies and sheers for her front window.    At the time, I couldn't fathom spending money like that on a window.

Now I get it.  They finish the room beautifully, and have lasted for long enough that the per year cost to have them works out to be less than $20.  Well worth the investment.

 

Mrs.G123

I was thisclose to paying $200/panel from Ballard (and I need four panels!!!) but then found gorgeous lined silk panels from West Elm on Clearance for $40. Um, yes please!

Passanie

Probably $35. I couldn't stomach paying much more when they're available for so much less.

derky17

TheBridesMom:

A lot, if I thought that I would have them and love them for a long time.  Of course 'a long time' is a relative term.  I spend a lot of time at home, and I do appreciate quality fabric and would be willing to spend the money on something beautiful to enjoy....I am worth it.   Or I might buy some cheap curtains that are the 'perfect' color/pattern etc., if they caught my eye.

I remember when my mother spend several hundreds of dollars on custom made draperies and sheers for her front window.    At the time, I couldn't fathom spending money like that on a window.

Now I get it.  They finish the room beautifully, and have lasted for long enough that the per year cost to have them works out to be less than $20.  Well worth the investment.

 

I'm with you.  if there was something off the rack that was great and exactly what I was looking for, I'd spend whatever.  But honestly, I haven't gotten rid of the "granny" curtains that our previous homeowner had, because they are SO beautifully styled, and clearly custom.  I just don't care for the fabric choices, but want to replace them with something just as beautiful and I know it will cost a pretty penny in which to do so.   My fabric choices alone--based on my likes from prior shopping trips--will cost me at least $20 a yard for the raw materials. But my taste doesn't change all that much and I'd rather buy once with something that I absolutely LOVED.

Rock-n-Voll

Our house is a mish mash of uber-cheap Target/JCPenney, middle-of-the-road Pottery Barn and local semi-custom shop, and more expensive custom panels.  Clearly we are all over the place   After 5+ years in the house though and still not being done with drapes for all the windows because I can't find stuff I love, I'm ready to pay almost anything to just be done with it already!

seneedha

After looking for what seemed like forever for the perfect curtains, I ended up shelling out a little over $100 a panel to have them custom made at a local fabric shop. However, I'm super pleased with how they turned out and think they're well worth it (even though I'm sure DH wouldn't agree IF he knew how much I spent!).

floridakat

We have four Thai silk panels from RH in our master bedroom, and I love them. I'm fine curtains from Target, too, but window treatments are one of the items where quality shows, IMO. We also have 96" windows, so it's harder to find off-the-rack stuff that I like.

iloveu4ever

dairygirl19:

If I really loved, adored and made of a great sturdy material I'd pay $100.00 a panel about.

The ones I have now are JCP and were like $12.99 a panel. They're five years old and I'm getting bored with them, but they were just fine and did the job. I don't feel bad about trading them out, but I can't find ones I like more either at the moment.

Not bad mine would be around same for me. I am a big cheapsake.

yuengling58

Due to a new kitten our only curtains cost $10 for the set at the dollar general.

bim38106

lcherian:

I had some custom made for $400 per panel.

We've done this...not sure what the exact cost was, but it was at least that if not more (one pair are 2 story high panels). 

Never again.

Probably because my tastes change somewhat often, but some of those panels lasted 2 years before I changed them out (in the kitchen). The 2 story high ones I don't like at all anymore, but I also don't want to spend the money on new ones just yet...so we deal with them. We had 4 rooms professionally done and to be perfectly honest, there's only 1 room that I still like. Part of it was that we rushed into it a bit (I was 6 months PG, renovating an entire house, and just wanted it to be done before I had DD2!).

We also got Restoration Hardware silk panels ($100ish per panel?) for the master bedroom and after about 18 months, I ended up switching those out for plain white JCP ones that I love far better and that cost maybe $50 for the pair!

The new kitchen ones I recently got were $50/panel for 96" panels. Again, I love them and that was basically the cheapest I could find in the color, fabric, length I wanted. I like them a million times more than the custom ones we previously had, though it was painful to get rid of those....

So my answer, around $50/panel (depending on the length of them as well). I'd probably go up to $100/panel if I really really loved them, but never again will I get custom made for the price we paid. Unless one day I suddenly stop having that itch to change things up a bit every few years  

sratsey

I just had 4 pleated silk panels custom made for my LR and DR.

They were $170 each.

Pricey, but they're custom sized (102 inches) interlined and weighted and compared to what PB and RH charges for panels, they were far better quality and considerably less.

 

lovebug215

I always get mine from bed bath and beyond, and they are all under 40 bucks a panel. plus if you use a 20% coupon its only 32 bucks each. I'd never spend more then that cause its not really a necessity. unless you need to block light or the draft of course